I have always tried to dress my DC and DGC in original home made costumes for the many events for which they are requested. Sadly these days parents do tend to rush out and buy expensive outfits instead, though I accept that many of them are working and have very little time.
My DGS recently had to dress up as a woodland creature at the end of a school project. It was at very short notice so I used an old rucksack and a silver plastic bag from an Amazon purchase stuffed with the contents of an old pillow case and rolled up to represent a snail shell. It was finished off with a pair of comic antennae on his head ... quick, simple and effective.
When I picked him up he told me everyone had laughed at him and was fighting back tears! I saw that most of them were dressed in bought fox, bear, or rabbit onesies. I had looked online previously and found at £25 to £30 each these were ludicrously expensive! I was furious and mortified for him. This is normally a good, caring, family orientated school and |I could not believe this had happened especially as they had been told not to buy anything specially. I have asked his father to have a word with the school as it is not my place.
I believe in originality and creativity and won't bow down to commercialism but I am now worried that it may well have an adverse effect on my DGC. They have asked for Halloween costumes and where normally I would make them cheaply now I am not so sure. What do others think?
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